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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Resembling a cat, especially in being quiet or stealthy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Like a cat; feline; watchful; stealthy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. resembling a cat; feline
  2. adj. slow, deliberate, quiet and stealthy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Like a cat; stealthy; noiseless.

Etymologies

  1. cat +‎ -like (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Fortunately, my "catlike" reflexes allowed me to delay contact for an spit-second so that I went into the quarter panel instead of under the front bumper.”

    People Are People: Dealing With It

  • “The uncivilised vampires are described somewhat differently, their walk being "catlike" and "on the edge of shifting into a crouch" (TW18).”

    Twilight Lexicon » Appearance

  • “In fact, Elizabeth did favor Anne in the sharpness of her chin and the catlike slant of her eyes.”

    Simon & Schuster: Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer

  • “Then, with catlike reflexes, she grabbed the tops of the stingers.”

    Simon & Schuster: GuildWars Edge of Destiny

  • “Behind that gloss was something cold and terrible, that lurked and waited and watched -- something catlike, something inimical and deadly.”

    CHAPTER II

  • “With a sudden, catlike movement he whirled over on his back, caught his heel in a tiny, saucer-shaped depression and sat up.”

    DUTCH COURAGE

  • “She arose with catlike ease and suddenness to her full height, her eyes flashing, her nostrils quivering like a deer's.”

    NEGORE, THE COWARD

  • “Even then he would have failed, had it not been for the patient's catlike vitality and almost uncanny physical and mental grip on life.”

    THE END OF THE STORY

  • “For last of them was one, a lean and catlike man, young of face, with a quick and daring eye, who drank darkly, and spat forth upon the ground, and spoke no word.”

    THE DEATH OF LIGOUN

  • “Three catlike faces were all attached to the same oversized head.”

    Simon & Schuster: Crossed

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